Six Characters in Search of a Republic: Studies in the Political Thought of the American ColoniesRevised version of Part II of [the author's] Seedtime of the Republic. |
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Page 63
... religious liberty that he had dimly perceived at Cambridge and was still groping for at Salem , Williams swept away , almost too impudently , a formidable barrier to political liberty ; at the same time , he furnished an object lesson ...
... religious liberty that he had dimly perceived at Cambridge and was still groping for at Salem , Williams swept away , almost too impudently , a formidable barrier to political liberty ; at the same time , he furnished an object lesson ...
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... religious liberty as the conse- quence of the essential equality of all faiths . Here again he made little sense to most men of his age , especially because he was , in the words of Miller and Johnson , " pious with a fervor and passion ...
... religious liberty as the conse- quence of the essential equality of all faiths . Here again he made little sense to most men of his age , especially because he was , in the words of Miller and Johnson , " pious with a fervor and passion ...
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... religion ! Again we see the kinship in Mayhew's philosophy of things religious and political - of piety and patriotism , of private judgment and civil liberty , of impatience with speculating bishops and mistrust of overweening kings ...
... religion ! Again we see the kinship in Mayhew's philosophy of things religious and political - of piety and patriotism , of private judgment and civil liberty , of impatience with speculating bishops and mistrust of overweening kings ...
Contents
Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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